u GRINTS PASS DAILY YXH RIER PAGE TWO it » xi Mtn. x < h rum 11 «1. 11*10 Liberty’s Foundation Stones Attention Ladies! In our window display this week, we offer a few pleasing suggestions for “HIS” Xmas. Now' is the time to do áPiljrtmr Kan ding 'in (fftpe Kod, your buying, while stocks are com pleto. Few replacements can be made in time for Christmas. A small deposit will hold your selectionsAintil later. Giftsthatoutliveall other gifts! At LETCHER & SON » „ - ____ T Jfrlynouih- ifaek- JEWELERS "IT’S THE CLIMATE” with some 90 men, whom for three The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. •lays we entertained and feasted, and And the woods against a stormy sky they went out and killed five deer, Their giant branches tossed. which they brought and bestowed on his famous poem comes to our governor anil u|M>n the cuptain mind with each recurring and others.' ” T Many Causes for Gratitude. Thanksgiving day. and carries us back to 1621 when the land Wo have reason to be grateful for was young and our pilgrim forbears our abundant horvwta, which «office were laying the first foundation stones to feed us at home and empower u* of our great American republic. To to give substantial aid to the starving them belongs the credit of having cele­ war-wasted peoples abroad; to be hum­ brated the first Thanksgiving day in bly thankful for the wealth that en­ New England, but not the first in ables us to succor those who have lost North Agierica. Historians remind us all that is so precious In our own eyes. of the fact that in the year 1578 an In gratitude for our manifold national English minister named Wolfall con­ and jiersonal blessings we all have oc­ ducted a Thanksgiving service on the casion to “bless the Lord, and forget shores of Newfoundland. The min­ not all His benefits.” ister was with an expedition under Our rural ancestors with little blest. Patient of labor when the end was rest. Frobisher which brought the first Eng­ Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual lish colony to settle on those shores. grain. It was in this pious spirit or grati­ With feasts and offerings and a thankful tude that the Pilgrims on the "stern strain. —Pope. and rock-bound coast" of Plymouth The favorite way of celebrating “pra.vsed God" in sincere gratitude for New London, Cetin.—The State of Thanksgiving in New England was, of the way in which he had delivered Connecticut, through G. Harold Gil- course, first with prayer and a sermon, them from all the dangers of the deep patric, state treasurer, has pur­ in which the minister told his congre­ that the Mayflower had gone through. chased $100o worth < f W. S. 8. as an gation the many things they had to be We of the luxurious plenty of our day Investment for state funds. They will thankful for. The church was generally would feel that we had little for be held until the date ot maturity. decorated with fruits and grains, and which to be grateful If we had no The purchase is to oe credited to the when the custom became national this more than the Pilgrims had on their j city of Putnam, of which Gilpatric was continued. The idea of the Thanks­ first Thanksgiving day. Dangers known is a resident giving dinner in New England was to ■ nd unknown encompassed them round The Connecticut stale treasury sub- hare all of the fruits of the harvest, about, and their days were filled with Krlbed for $1.250,non worth of Vic uncertain. and turkey became the principal meat hard labor, while their fare was of the lory notes during the last campaign. course because this bird was so plenti­ plainest and the future was in which This brought the total of the state's ful and was caught in the wild state But they had stout hearts American investment in government war secu and prepared most appetizfngly by the hope ran high. rtties up to more than $2,000,000. Of the says : housewives. Thanksgiving one historian WHS------ 1 “The annual celebration, as we have Then there was pumpkin pie. and as With the purchasing power of the cranberries grew in great quantities in it in its present form, is essentially of New England states the sauce of that American conception. The settlers of lollar lower than ft has ever been, it berry was a fitting addition to the .Jamestown, the Dutch of New York, ■ the part of wisdom to put Home of turkey course. Plum cake, or, as It has the Pilgrims of Plymouth, and the Pu­ ;hem to work, earning Interest, until come to be known, fruit cake, was a ritans of Boston were in every respect ;he time that money is worth mor>. favorite for the Christina« holidays In devoutly religious people. They were Rar Savings Stamps enable the wage England and was brought over with cornerstones in the great temple of tarner to do this«. Save what you can other dainties by the first of the set­ republican government on this side of ind invest ft In W. S. S. tlers, and the recipes for making treas­ the Atlantic. The first written consti­ ured by the housewives. tution in all history was an American Meat pies, or, as we call them, mince document, in that it was written in the pies, came later In the list of good cabin of I he Mayflower on Saturday. Nov. 11, 1620, as that unique cruft things for Thanksgiving. With the very earliest settlers the swung at her anchor in Provincetown day was. Indeed, a day of prayer, and harbor, the first six words being Tn little else besides, but later it became the nume of God. Amen.' This phrase a feast day, as well, and it was a poor laid the foundation stones of our I civilization. These men family, indeed, In New Englund that western S>4 of NE'4 . Sec. 36-37-8W could not afford a turkey for Thanks- brought but little with them, but left much to posterity. If this were the NÉK of SW>4, Sec. 36-3 7-8 W giving dinner. only thing they left us, the American SW >4 of 8W>/V Sec. 36-37-8W Thanksgiving day, their names would 9E% of NW>4, Sec. 36-37-8W he Immortalized. It gives Joy to the humblest of peoples. On the follow­ 200 Acres, Price $2,250. ing autumn there was held a ‘grand ■ S’4 of SE'4, Sec. 16-38-7W thanksgiving.' The most condensed ac­ SE’4 of SW’4, Sec. 16-38-7W' count of this 'grande thanksgiving' can be found In a letter written by Ed­ 120 Acres, Pri e $1,100 ward Winslow, sent to a friend in Ix>ts 1, 2, 3, and 4, Sec. 36- England, as follows: ‘Our harvest be­ 39-5W. ing gotten in, our governor sent out 137.18 Acres, Price $950 four men on fowling, so that we might Confiden’I-’l Omm n!r’t on after a special manner rejoice togeth "T promhi il Matilda no* to mention •r. after we had gathered the fruits of this to anyone, bccniise «lie got ft